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Rutherford County board agrees to hear appeal after family cites clerical errors in student expulsion case
Summary
After public comments from the student’s parents alleging clerical errors and inconsistent communications, the Rutherford County Board of Education voted to grant a closed hearing to review an expulsion upheld by the disciplinary hearing authority and the director of schools.
Parents of a student subject to expulsion urged the Rutherford County Board of Education on June 12 to grant a board hearing, saying clerical errors and inconsistent communications might have affected the disciplinary outcome. After discussion, the board voted to grant the closed hearing.
The appeal centers on a disciplinary action that school administrators and the disciplinary hearing authority (DHA) upheld. In public comment, David Baughman, speaking on behalf of his child, said documentation and communications had conflicted at “every level of RCS administration” and that “the most recent disciplinary appeal decision letter we received had the wrong offense listed on it.” Baughman asked the board to “grant the opportunity of a hearing…
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